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“We had lived until yesterday in a rational world. Now everyone around us—our schoolmates, neighbors, and teachers; our tradesmen, policemen, and bureaucrats—had all gone mad. They had been harboring a hatred for us which we had grown accustomed to calling “prejudice.” What a gentle word that was! What a euphemism! In fact they hated us... Continue Reading →
“America is a good idea brought to life and made real. We exist as an ongoing act of collective will, rooted in the conviction that shared beliefs matter more than shared bloodlines.” Most of us who actively follow politics and related news everyday are guilty of surrounding ourselves in an echo chamber that strengthens our... Continue Reading →
I love reading well written history books and my interest mostly lies in politics or WWII. However, my knowledge about the Second World War has been limited to Nazism, the Holocaust and the occupation of Paris. This book covers a new aspect of the war for me - an American women’s perspective. Many men have... Continue Reading →
This book had great reviews and I wanted to read a preferably politically neutral book about the election of 2016, the reasons behind it and the possible repercussions of it across the world. This is a short and fast read, with some analysis and lots of quotes from other source material (which I am not... Continue Reading →
This book evoked lots of emotions and I don't think I can articulate in my words anything about the book that is better than what the author has already said. I will still write a small note below but there will be another post which will have some of the paragraphs from the book that... Continue Reading →
